Music Announcements

Join Melinda J on Saturday, February 28th from 6-9 a.m. as A Great Blend of Watercolors celebrates Black History Month with a "Motown Musical Journey." Start your weekend off with A Great Blend of Watercolors, every Saturday from 6-9 a.m. — only on KFAI Fresh Air Radio. See you then!

This Thursday, Fernando Meza, Chair of the Percussion program at the University of Minnesota, comes to Encuentro to share with us in a journey around the world through an instrument that lives in many cultures: the marimba. This instrument has a rich history and tradition in many countries, in and beyond Latin America, and, in some, it has even been declared as the national instrument.

On two consecutive programs, Thursday, November 14, and Thursday, November 21, Encuentro will present “No basta rezar: La música de la Teología de la Liberación” (To pray is not enough: The music of Liberation Theology). These programs will feature Latin American folk music and songs that have formed a sort of “songbook" for the movement in the Catholic church that has come to be known as "Liberation Theology”, and will play examples from a number of Latin American masses that capture this movement, with a special emphasis on the “Misa Campe